"The Police announce that dogs without dollars found wandering after 10 p.m. are liable to be destroyed."—Hong Kong Paper.

We understand, however, that in China dogs are almost invariably provided with taels.


TRIALS OF THE FISH-TRADE.

"Clothes, my dear! Don't mention clothes. You ought to be in the fish line, Why, I runs through a set o' furs in about a month!"


A NOTE TO NATURE,

accounting for my previous silence in an unusually temperate March and also presenting an ultimatum.